[7-81] [Petition for an Incorporation, 1779.] To the Honble the Council and Gentlemen of the Honble House of Representatives in General Assembly at Exeter convened March the 1779. The humble Petition of the Inhabitants of Duxbury Farm and Mile Slip in the County of Hillsborough, and State of New Hamp whose names are hereto subscribed. Sheweth That they are not suficiently numerous to settle and maintain a Gospel Minister, and it is not likely they ever will That they are situate between the Towns of Amherst and Wilton but at such a distance from their Meeting-houses, that the aged and infirm are utterly unable to attend public Worship, and it is a great Inconvenience to the rest. That divers of the Inhabitants of said Towns of Lyndsborough and Amherst, who live near the said Duxbury Farm and mile Slip labour under the same disadvantage, and as by reason of the largeness of the said Towns, and number of the Inhabitants, they can well be spared, are very desirous of being seperate from their said Towns, and annexed to said Duxbury Farm and Slip. Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray Your Honors to take their said Case into your serious Consideration and that (if in your great Wisdom you shall see proper) your Pet's may be at liberty to bring in a Bill, in order to annex a certain part of said Amherst and Lyndborough and the Inhabitants thereof to the said Duxbury Farm and Slip, Viz' in Amherst Beginning at the northwest corner of a lot belonging to william Peabody Jur lying on amherst west line thence an East point 396 Poles being the width of six lots to the northeast Corner of a lot belonging to from thence a southerly point to the East End of the house of John Burn then south to the south line of amherst then by s line to the east side of the mile slip and in Lyndsboro Beginning at the northeast corner of Duxbury-school-farm and running a westerly point by the north end. of s farm and mile slip to the east line of wilton then running north by s wilton to the northeast corner of sd wilton thence a East point to amherst west line thence a southerly point by amherst west line to the northeast corner of Duxbury school farm And that the whole may be Erected into a Township with such Priviledges and Immunities as are Enjoyed by other Towns within the said State. And your Pet' as in duty bound will ever pray &c [7-76] [Remonstrance to foregoing, 1779.] To the Honourable the Council and House of Representatives in New-Hampshire Whereas certain persons belonging to Duxbury School-Farm, Amherst, Lyndeborough & the Mile Slip in their Petition to Your Hon of March last, pray'd that they might be Erected into a Township as in Said Petition expres'd and obtain'd an Order for a hearing before the Gen' Assembly on the second Thursday of their next sessions after the 17th of June AD 1779, and We being Residents & Proprietors of the said Mile-Slip, Humbly pray that the prayer of said Petition may not be Granted at Present, as We think if it should it would Greatly Embaras & perplex us. We therefore pray that said Petition may be dismissed. Stephen Blanchard Stephen Blanchard Jun' 6 Persons N: B: We non Resident Proprietors in the within named Amherst & Mile-Slip; join in the prayer of the within Petition, & pray that said Amherst & Said Mile-Slip may remain as they are, until some more Convenient season.— [A similar petition was signed by William Peabody. -ED.] [7-78] [Remonstrance from Amherst.] State of New Hampshire To the Honble the Council & House of Representatives for the State afores.— Whereas the Inhabitants (or certain of them) of Duxbury Farm, otherwise called Duxbury School-Farm, and Mile Slip in the County of Hillsborough in this State, in march last, did prefer a Petition to your Honours praying that they might be erected into a Township together with certain Parts of Lyndeborough & Amherst in sd State in their Petition set forth, &c-We the Subscribers, being Residents and Proprietors in that Part of Amherst which they in their sd Petition pray may be incorporated with, & a Part of, their proposed Township; humbly pray that we may not be set of to, & incorporated with, the s proposed Township; but that we may be permitted to remain in our present State, as we humbly conceive that it is much more for our Interest & Convenience to remain, at present, as we are, and not be incumbered and perplexed with the Charges & Incumbrances necessarily attending the erecting a new Township -which is humbly submitted-by Benjamin Hopkins James Russell Benjamin Hopkins junior Jonathan Grimes Josiah Sawyer Ju his Thaddeus X Grimes mark Joseph Crosby Ebenezer Hopkins John Burns John Burns June Nathan Hutchinson of Lyndeborough 16teen with Wm Peabody [7-79] [Petition for an Incorporation, 1780.] To the Honorable the Council and House of Representatives for the State of New Hampshire to be Convend at Exeter on the first Wednesday of June Next the Petition of the Subscribers Humbly Sheweth-That Your Petitioners are Inhabitants of the Southwesterly part of Amherst in the County of Hillsborough ; that the Inhabitants of the one Mile Slip and Duxbury School farm labour under many Disadvantages for want of an Incorperation, and of themselves are too few in Number at present to Support a Minister of the Gospel if they ware Incorporatedand Are at too Great a Distance from the Places of Publick Worship in the Neighbouring Towns to Attend with any Conveniancy-that Your Petitioners live very far from the Place of LIBRAR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Publick Worship in Amharst and Labour under Great disadvantages in our present Scituation that your Petitioners Apprehend that if we ware Anexed to the one Mile Slip and Duxbury School farm Agreable to the following lines, we Should be Able to Support a Gospel Minister and Should have many Advantages that we are at Present deprived of-and at the Same time the Inhabitants of the one Mile Slip and Duxbury farm will have the Same previledges their Neighbours Enjoy, and Amharst Receive no Real Injury by it; Wherefore Your Petitioners Pray your Honours to take the Matter Under your Wise Consideration and if your Honours think fit, to Incorporate the Inhabitants of the Tract of land Included in the following Bounds into a Body Politick Giving us all the Previledges and Advantages that Other Towns Enjoy Bounded as follows Beginning at a White oak Tree Standing on the East line of Wilton it being the Northwest Corner Bounds of the one Mile Slip, Runing Easterly on the South line of Lyndeborough Six hundred Poles to a Maple Tree it being the South East Corner Bounds of Lyndeborough, then Runing Northerly on the East line of Lyndeborough about half a Mile to the Southwest Corner Bounds of a Lot Own in Part by Joseph Dunklin from thence Easterly four Hundred and Eighty Eight Poles to a Stake and Stones Standing in the South east Corner of a lot Own" by Amos Green from thence Southerly five Hundred and Ninety two Poles to an Oak Tree Marked Standing on land of Coll John Shephard by the North Bank of Souhegon River from thence Southeasterly makeing Souhegon River the Northerly line till it Comes to a Stake and Stones Standing on the South bank of Souhegon River on land of Mosses Towns about two Miles on a Straight line from the Oak tree Mentioned on Col' Shephards land, then from said Stake and Stones Runing Southerly Six hundred and Twenty Poles to a Stake and Stones Standing in the North line of Hollis from thence westerly on Hollis North line four Miles and one Quarter of a Mile to a Stake and Stones being the Northwest Corner Bounds of Hollis from thence Westerly one Mile to a Stake and Stones Standing, in the East line of Mason then Northerly Two Hundred and forty Eight Poles to a Chesnut Tree being the Southeast Corner Bounds of Wilton then Northerly on the East line of Wilton three Miles and a half to the first Bounds Mentioned-And Your Petitioners as in Duty Bound Shall Ever pray If an Incorporation with the Destrict Should be Disagreeable to your Honours we the Subcribers Pray that your Honours would apoint a Comittee to Come and View our Situation and your Petitionrs as in Duty Bound Shall Ever pray Amharst May 31 1780. William Wallace Joseph Crosby Elijah Averil andrew Bradford [The following names are on a similar petition, dated Mile Slip, May 31, 1780:-ED.] [The petitioners did not succeed until 1794. See page 603, ante. ED.] [R. 2-284.] [Petition of Archelaus Batchelder, Soldier.] [In a petition dated Milford, May 26, 1795, Archelaus Batchelder stated "that he was grevously wounded in the service of the United States in the time of the late war." He stated that he expected to be placed on the pension-list, and asked the legislature to intercede in favor of his being granted arrears.—ED.] MONSON. This town was incorporated April 1, 1746, and comprised the north-west part of the old Dunstable grant. It had an existence as a town until July 4, 1770, at which time, in answer to a request of the inhabitants, about two miles wide on the north side was annexed to Amherst, and the remainder to Hollis. An unsuccessful attempt was made in 1782 to reestablish the town as originally granted. |